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During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the Japanese policemen and their families by doing the household work and giving up their traditional weaving work. Above all, they were forbidden to tattoo their faces. And these tattoos were seen as the Seediqs traditional belief to transform themselves into Seediq Bale ("true humans"). Mona Rudao, the protagonist, witnessed the repression by the Japanese over a period of 30 years. Sometime between autumn and winter 1930, when the slave labor is at its harshest, a young Seediq couple are married and a joyful party is thrown. At the same time, a newly appointed Japanese policeman goes on his inspection tour to this tribe. Mona Rudaos first son, Tado Mona, offers wine to the policeman with gusto, but is in return beaten up because his hands were considered not clean enough. With anger, Tado Mona and his brother Baso Mona attack the policeman. And from that day onward, their tribe is living in the shadow of being the object of revenge by the Japanese. In a few days, a group of youth surround Mona Rudao. They strongly request him to lead the retaliation against the Japanese. Mona Rudao struggles for a long time between extending his fellows lives and fighting back for dignity, until he sees these youngsters faces - clear without Seediqs tattoos - that he made up his mind. He tells the youngsters, "Japanese troops out-number the stones in Dakusui River, more intensive than the leaves in the forest, but my determination fighting them is ever stronger than Mt. Kire." "Children! On the tip of the Rainbow Bridge led to home of our ancestors spirits, there is another beautiful hunting range. Our ancestors are all there! Remember, only brave spirits can enter this place, and we can never lose it. My fellows, let us hunt the heads of our enemies, and we wash our spirits with blood so that we walk the Rainbow Bridge to be always with our ancestors." The film Seediq Bale depicts the Wushe Incident, which occurred in central Taiwan during the Japanese rule. When the Seediq Bale, believing in the Rainbow, and the Japanese, believing in the Sun, met one another, they fought. The leader of Seediq Bale, Mona Rudao, led 300 warriors fighting against 3000 Japanese troopers. The only thing they forgot was whether it was the Rainbow or the Sun they believed in; they actually believed in the same sky.
The film begins with a hunt by a mountain river in Taiwan. Two Bunun men are hunting a boar, but they are attacked by a group led by young Mona Rudao of Seediq people. Mona Rudao invades the territory, kills one of them and takes away the boar.
Masanobu Andô
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Jun'ichi Haruta
Egawa Hiromichi, Police chief in Wushe area
Sabu Kawahara
General Yahiko Kamada
Shiang-Chu Tang
Li, Ching-Fang, Special envoy of China
Nolay Piho
Mona Rudao
Chih-Hsiang Ma
Temu Walis
Vivian Hsu
Obing Tadao aka Hatsuko Takayama
Mei-Ling Lo
Obing Nawi aka Hanako Kawano
Landy Wen
Mahung Mona (Mona's Daughter)
Da-Ching
Mona Rudao - Young
Pawan Nawi
Chief Rudao Luhe, Mona's Father
Yakau Kuhon
Tado Mona (Mona's Eldest Son)
Pawan Neyung
Baso Mona (Mona's Younger Son)
Yuan-Jie Lin
Pawan Nawi
Chih-Wei Cheng
Biho Sapo
Yi-Fan Hsu
Ichiro Hanaoka aka Dakis Nomin
Soda Voyu
Jiro Hanaoka aka Dakis Nawi
Hayung Gaki
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